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BACK TO THE ROOTS, EUROPE FOR EVERYBODY! GOOD PRACTICE GUIDEconstructed and proofread, whilst a different subgroupworked closely on music and sound effects.The rough copy of the film was finalised with theaddition of music and voice-overs. This was thengiven to Julien Lahmi, the filmmaker from theFrench group for final editing.Julien Lahmi spent 10 days with the English moviemaker,Mustafa Boğa and the participants fromTurkey, Germany and of course France and theUK. The Turkish and German participants stayedonly 4 days whereas the French and British groupsstayed for 10 days. Because the global budget ofthe European project could not be increased, somegroups could not stay in London until the end ofthe movie-workshop. Julien and Mustafa suggestedsharing the workshops as follows:Writing: Mustafa Boğa (England) Pictures, subtitles andediting: Julien Lahmi (France) Sounds and voice-overs:Rais Khalilov (Germany) and Osman Akın (Turkey)Titles of all the short-films are:Hereafter the synopsis:L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DES CHOSES: movie-maker: JulienLahmi Maison de l’Europe des Yvelines – MissionLocale Intercommunale des Mureaux & Arcadiwithin the French film education initiative « Passeursd’images en Ile-de-France » – 18’27’’- 2012This movie is the result of a collective of inhabitantsof the city of Les Mureaux. It shows a young German,Dieter, who begins a journey in Europe to find hisplace in the world. He films the intimacy of a familyfrom this French town, and delivers us his feelingsthrough surprising, funny and moving scenes.THE WAY: Rais Khalilov – IntegrationswerkRespekt e.V Berlin - 15’26’’- 2011Realised by Berliners of Russian and Ukrainianorigin, this movie shows us people who, althoughliving in Germany, draw from the relationshipsand friendships that they have developed inGermany, Britain and France but also in theirpride in their roots and their cultures of origin.A LONG WAY OFF: Datça municipality – 11’17’’– 2012Realised by the inhabitants of Datça, town in theprovince of Bodrum in Turkey, this movie showeda strong link to personal history. The participantsdiscovered their pride in being Turkish, theirmigratory route within their country and in Europeand finally their return home to their roots.THE SEARCH: movie-maker: Mustafa Boğa – BalıkArts – 12’40’’- 2012Realised by local residents of Hackney in London,this movie is the fruit of the creativity of people ofTurkish, Kurdish, Eastern European, Algerian andother origins, who reveal a single story from fourdifferent viewpoints, those of a child, his motherand his father, and as a teenager. It also coversthemes of war and displacement and how theseaffect different members of one family.RED HAPPINESS: movie-makers: Mustafa Boğa/Julien Lahmi – all partners & Arcadi withinthe French film education initiative « Passeursd’images en Ile-de-France » – 9’32’’- 2012Realised by a group of Berliners, Londoners,inhabitants of the Ile-de-France and Turkey, thislast movie illustrates the European motto “Unitedin diversity “. In spite of the linguistic, interculturaland social differences, the participants created thissingular story around the idea that the people arealways confronted with their roots, even if they tryto hide them.10
BACK TO THE ROOTS, EUROPE FOR EVERYBODY! GOOD PRACTICE GUIDEINTERCULTURAL MEETINGSThe first one took place in Berlin in September2011The first meeting took place in September 2011 inBerlin, the original place of the bilateral partnershipwhere the Application Form was completed, atRespekt’s offices from September 25th to 28th,2011. This was the first time all the partners meteach other (especially the leaders and their staff,and some learners). This meeting aimed to bringtogether all the participants around the Europeanproject. It was hoped that ice-breaking games couldhave been played to create a less formal atmosphere,but because time was short, it was not possible.Nevertheless, two days were spent discussing threemain topics:• European formalities with the EuropeanCommission (a mandatory task for every groupleader)• Communication of the project (creation of acommon logo for the project and a social networkpage on Facebook)• Movie workshop sessions© MAISON DE L’EUROPE DES YVELINESMeetings and workshops...At the first meeting in September 2011 in Berlin,about 70 people came. Some of them wereworking in student movements or representativesof NGOs dealing with migration and initiativesfrom the Pangea House. Moreover, a visit tothe town hall of Charlottenburg was organisedthanks to Mrs. Monika Thimen (the Mayor ofthis Berlin district), Mr. Çakmakoğlu (in chargeof migration affairs) and different immigrationorganisations. The visit of the group was alsohonoured through reports/articles by the Berlinlocal press. There were visits to the Anne FrankMuseum, the Kreuzberg Museum, which owns animpressive collection of local immigration history,the Pergamon Museum, the Memorial to theMurdered Jews of Europe, Kreuzberg Museum ofLocal History and Society and an excursion aroundBerlin was organised at night.The second one in London in March 2012This step was decided upon after the ApplicationForm was sent to the EU Commission. All partnersrealised that organising the European movieworkshop in London seemed to be an especiallydifficult step, mainly because of the mixture ofdifferent people speaking different languages andhaving different backgrounds. So an additionalEuropean meeting took place from March 5thto 9th, 2012. The objectives were to watch allnational short films made in each country and then11
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